Play The Game. Doug Dixon

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      KENSINGTON PUBLISHING CORP.

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      This book is dedicated to my loving parents, Fred and

      Leola Dixon; my brother, Desmond Dixon; my sister,

      Deirdri Brown; and to the late Mrs. Cora Anderson,

      my spiritual adviser, who taught me how to walk in

      the confidence of God in troubled times.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      First and foremost, thank you God for every blessing you have put in my life.

      Special thanks to Selena James and Rakia Clark for driving this project.

      Thank you fellas: Tracey Clarke, Dwayne Butler, Kenneth Allen, Darryl Portis, Cedric Perryman, Gerald Westry, and Damian Collins.

      Thank you nupes: Archie Wesley, Hampton Simmons, and Terrance Marshall for continued encouragement.

      To the other nupes: Kenneth Ried and Eric Go-shay.

      Thanks to the fans who sent personal emails for The Jump Off.

      Special dedication to the late Franck “Clyde” DuCloux (Rest In Peace).

      Contents

      PROLOGUE

      CHAPTER 1: Mya

      CHAPTER 2: Tangie

      CHAPTER 3: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 4: Mya

      CHAPTER 5: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 6: Mya

      CHAPTER 7: Tangie

      CHAPTER 8: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 9: Mya

      CHAPTER 10: Tangie

      CHAPTER 11: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 12: Mya

      CHAPTER 13: Tangie

      CHAPTER 14: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 15: Mya

      CHAPTER 16: Tangie

      CHAPTER 17: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 18: Mya

      CHAPTER 19: Tangie

      CHAPTER 20: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 21: Mya

      CHAPTER 22: Tangie

      CHAPTER 23: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 24: Mya

      CHAPTER 25: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 26: Tangie

      CHAPTER 27: Mya

      CHAPTER 28: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 29: Tangie

      CHAPTER 30: Mya

      CHAPTER 31: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 32: Tangie

      CHAPTER 33: Mya

      CHAPTER 34: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 35: Mya

      CHAPTER 36: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 37: Tangie

      CHAPTER 38: Mya

      CHAPTER 39: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 40: Tangie

      CHAPTER 41: Mya

      CHAPTER 42: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 43: Mya

      CHAPTER 44: Tangie

      CHAPTER 45: Mya

      CHAPTER 46: Curtis

      CHAPTER 47: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 48: Tangie

      CHAPTER 49: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 50: Mya

      CHAPTER 51: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 52: Curtis

      CHAPTER 53: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 54: Tangie

      CHAPTER 55: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 56: Mya

      CHAPTER 57: Stephanie

      CHAPTER 58: Epilogue

      PROLOGUE

      “Excuse me. Do you have these boots in a size six?” Mya asked the clerk at Nordstrom’s department store.

      Mya LeVeaux was out doing her typical Saturday afternoon shopping to relieve stress. Lord knows that was what she needed right about now. Last night Mya had received word from her hometown of New Orleans that her ex-boyfriend, Marvin DuCloux, had just proposed marriage to a neurosurgeon, and asked Mya’s own father, Bishop Franklyn LeVeaux, to do the service. Bishop LeVeaux had graciously accepted the honor, as Marvin’s family had long been members at Greater Mount Olive Full Gospel Baptist Church.

      Months earlier, Mya had left New Orleans after the annual church picnic. Marvin, her boyfriend of three years, had shown up two hours late but five minutes before Wendy Landreaux, the Church Hoe, arrived. Earlier that day, the church gossiper, Ms. Thibodaux, had left the two of them alone to finish loading refreshments into the church van for the picnic. No one had seen the two since then. When Wendy arrived she had what appeared to be semen scattered throughout the top of her hair and around her forehead.

      “Let me check for you, ma’am,” the clerk replied before walking off toward the storage area. A couple of minutes later the salesclerk appeared, holding the same burgundy boot Mya had given her.

      “Ma’am, the only size six we have left is being tried on by СКАЧАТЬ